AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals is investing more than €12 million to expand production capacity and upgrade its organic peroxides facility in Los Reyes, Mexico.
BASF and SINOPEC will expand the production capacity of neopentylglycol at the Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co. Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China.
AkzoNobel's Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than €4 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Levasil CC-branded product line of patented surface-modified colloidal silica.
Vogel Paint announced that phase three of a five-year, $29.3 million expansion plan for its powder coating operation located at the company's headquarters in Orange City, Iowa, will begin ahead of schedule.
Michelman is marking two decades of providing water-based coatings and surface modifying additives to the Asia-Pacific markets with a capacity expansion of its manufacturing facilities.
Munich-based Wacker Chemie AG will expand its production capacities for silicone and polymer products in China and continue to reinforce its research and development (R&D) capability in order to further strengthen its market position in the region.